MSI Radeon RX 560 AERO ITX OC (14 CU)
vs
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G 9Gbps


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the MSI Radeon RX 560 AERO ITX OC (14 CU) and the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G 9Gbps, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The MSI Radeon RX 560 AERO ITX OC (14 CU) is based on the AMD Radeon RX 560 (14 CU) and has 896 texture shaders and 14 execution units.

GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G 9Gbps is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB, which has 1280 shaders and 10 execution units.
MSI Radeon RX 560 AERO ITX OC (14 CU) GPU GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G 9Gbps
AMD Radeon RX 560 (14 CU) Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
Polaris 21 XL GPU Chip GP106-400-A1
GCN 4 Architecture Pascal
14 Streaming Multiprocessors 10
896 Shader 1280
16 Render Output Units 48
56 Texture Units 80
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The MSI Radeon RX 560 AERO ITX OC (14 CU) has 4 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 112 GB/s.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G 9Gbps can access 6 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 216 GB/s.

4 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 2.257 GHz
7.0 Gbps Memory Speed 9.0 Gbps
112 GB/s Memory bandwidth 216 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The MSI Radeon RX 560 AERO ITX OC (14 CU) clocks in the base with up to 1.175 GHz. The base frequency of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G 9Gbps is 1.607 GHz.

1.175 GHz Base Clock 1.607 GHz
1.196 GHz Boost Clock 1.860 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.84 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the MSI Radeon RX 560 AERO ITX OC (14 CU) is 45 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the connector.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G 9Gbps has a TDP of 120 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

45 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
97 °C Tjunction max 94 °C
PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The MSI Radeon RX 560 AERO ITX OC (14 CU) has a total of 1 Axial fans.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G 9Gbps has 3 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 85 mm Fan 1 3 x 80 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the MSI Radeon RX 560 AERO ITX OC (14 CU).

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G 9Gbps supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
1x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The MSI Radeon RX 560 AERO ITX OC (14 CU) supports a maximum resolution of 5120x2880 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G 9Gbps is 7680x4320 pixels.

5120x2880 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED GIGABYTE RGB Fusion

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 No
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The MSI Radeon RX 560 AERO ITX OC (14 CU) is 155 mm long, 112 mm high and 39 mm wide.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G 9Gbps is 280 mm long, 111 mm high and 38 mm wide.

155 mm Length 280 mm
112 mm Height 111 mm
39 mm Width 38 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The MSI Radeon RX 560 AERO ITX OC (14 CU) was released in Q3/2017 at a price of 99 $ (Reference).

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 6G 9Gbps was introduced in Q3/2016 at a price of 249 $ (Reference).

-- Part-no GV-N1060AORUS-6GD
Q3/2017 Release date Q3/2016
99 $ (Reference) Launch Price 249 $ (Reference)
14 nm Structure size 16 nm
-- Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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